“Don't become a spiritual bigot. Don't feel that just because you meditate and you are striving for enlightenment that you are in any way superior to any other person. Be even. Be easy. You will last longer on the pathway to self-discovery.” WayFeelsPersonsSelfLastsSpiritualEasyBuddhismBalanceEnlightenmentDiscoveryStriveSelf DiscoverySuperiorsPathwaysBigots Author:Frederick Lenz
“A great deal of humility is necessary in the process of self-discovery. Humility is the ability to accept what and who you are at this moment.” SelfMomentsProcessAbilityDealsAcceptingHumilityBuddhismBalanceDiscoveryWho You AreSelf Discovery Author:Frederick Lenz
“I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being.” IfsNeedsFeelsWritingTryingHumansHuman BeingsIgnoranceBalanceDiscoveryPerpetualInner Life Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.” PeopleIfsWayTryingYearsFirstsImportantHelpingAgeSexRealizingLosesCuttingMiddleBalanceIllusionDiscoveryTwentiesMaturityKnockingShort Cuts Author:Kingsley Amis